Father jailed over 16-year illicit relationship with his own daughter

Leeds Crown Court heard the man and his daughter continued having a relationship despite being warned to stop. Picture: WikiCommonsSource:Supplied

A MAN who fathered three children with his own daughter and continued having a sexual relationship with her over 16 years has been jailed.

The pair, who have not been named, continued having sex despite repeated warnings from social services and police to end the relationship and avoid contact, a court has heard.

The father from Huddersfield, England, was estranged from his daughter when she was a child, but the illicit relationship began when she moved in with him as a teenager.

Leeds Crown Court heard the 57-year-old first kissed his daughter and touched her sexually when she was just 14.

The girl told police “one thing led to another” and they soon began having sex regularly.

Their first son was born in 2002, and her father was arrested and cautioned for incest three years later, by which time she was already pregnant with their second child, The Huddersfield Daily Examiner reported.

He admitted fathering the child and was put on the sexual offences register for two years.

Judge Christopher Batty said police were unaware the daughter was pregnant with her second child at the time.

The father admitted 10 charges of incest, one of indecent assault and one of gross indecency and was jailed for a total of 46 months.

Despite warnings from authorities ordering them not to see each other, the couple continued their illicit relationship and had a third child in 2010.

It only ended after the daughter went to police two years later over her father’s controlling ways.